Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to the following 1 Speech Production and Perception 2 Speech Analysis 3 Speech Coding 4 Speech Enhancement 5 Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implant 6 Phonetics and Phonology 7 Corpus based Linguistics 8 Speech and Language Disorders 9 Speech Recognition 10 Spoken Language Translation 11 Speaker, Language, and Emotion Recognition 12 Speech Synthesis 13 Language Modeling 14 Speech Prosody 15 Spoken Dialog Systems 16 Machine Learning Techniques in Speech and Language Processing 17 Voice Conversion 18 Indexing, Retrieval and Authoring of Speech Signals 19 Multi Modal Interfaces 20 Speech and Language Processing in Education 21 Spoken Language Resources and Technology Evaluation 22 Applications of Spoken Language Processing Technology 23 Others